'Trumpkins' and Clinton pumpkins keep carvers busy this Halloween

With Halloween approaching, the pursuit of pumpkin carving is receiving a topical twist in the US.
Orange likenesses of presidential candidates Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are being lovingly produced and shared with glee on social media.
The small but growing craft community has invented the term "Trumpkin" to describe their vegetable homages to the Republican nominee. No such snappy term has yet been coined for pumpkins depicting his rival.
Kelsey Kruzel, from Chicago, made a carving of Mrs Clinton, and her friend produced a Trumpkin to go alongside it.
"When my friends... read more

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